Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume II Method, Metaphysics, Mind, Language

by Garrett, Aaron; Harris, James A.

• ISBN13: 9780198807940
• ISBN10: 0198807945
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-10-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies by expert authors, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide a comprehensive account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid the foundation of the remarkable burst of intellectual fertility known as the Scottish Enlightenment, through the Victorian age and beyond, when it continued to exercise powerful intellectual influence at home and abroad. The books aim to be historically informative, while at the same time serving to renew philosophical interest in the problems with which the Scottish philosophers grappled and in the solutions they proposed.

This is a companion volume to Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I. Where Volume I covered Scottish Enlightenment contributions to morals, politics, art, and religion, this second volume covers philosophical method, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind. It includes a comprehensive account of the teaching of philosophy in Scottish universities in the eighteenth century. Particular attention is given to Scottish achievements in the science of the mind in chapters on perception, the intellectual powers, the active powers, habit and the association of ideas, and language.

Author Biography

Aaron Garrett, Professor of Philosophy, Boston University,James A. Harris, Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews

Aaron Garrett is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He specializes in the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy.

James A. Harris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He completed his DPhil at Oxford under the supervision of Galen Strawson, and was a Gifford Research Fellow at Glasgow and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He has written and published widely on eighteenth-century British philosophy, and has edited texts by Reid (with Knud Haakonssen), Beattie, Kames, and Abraham Tucker. He was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2012-13), and in 2018 gave the Benedict Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy at Boston University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

1. The Philosophy Curriculum at Scottish Universities in the Eighteenth Century, Thomas Ahnert
2. Philosophical Methods, Tamas Demeter
3. The Metaphysical Implications of Newtonianism, Timothy Yenter
4. Theories of Perception, Giovanni Grandi
5. The Intellectual Powers of the Human Mind, Lorne Falkenstein
6. The Active Powers of the Human Mind, Ruth Boeker
7. Habit and the Association of Ideas in the Scottish Enlightenment, John P. Wright and Kathryn Tabb
8. Language, Joseph Shieber